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A few shots of the opening festivities for the East Ramapo School District 2019-20 year. Held at Chestnut Ridge Middle School.
Dunham Massey on a freezing cold winter wonderland night.
Taken with my ‘pocket’ camera.
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While it is technically Thursday here, it is stil Wednesday for half the globe, so Happy Insect Hump Day! These two scarab beetles are sporting festive colours while they, erm, "kiss under the mistletoe". :)
Festivities have begun in Abu Dhabi. Here is a dazzling display of lights piercing through the dark sky.
I was in Mumbai during Ganesh Chaturthi. This side street was getting ready for another night of festivities.
Mumbai, India
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Venetian masks laid on top of one of my older Carnivale paintings. Trying to incorporate my art with photography.
This might be one of a handful of my images that will feature in one of the Photographic Magazines for a full page spread..... keep you posted.
Religious festivity in the Indio village of Cairoma, Bolivia.
Ca. 1930s, unidentified german amateur photographer.
The little boy ( at far, bottom left ) was mesmerised with this storybook character and made him explain the *whole* Grinch story !!
Uploaded for Saturday Self-Challenge theme "lights". Quickly snapped while out shopping at the MetroCentre.
Nicole likes her shrimp:) My colleague and friend is kind enough to have us over for a pre-Christmas party each year in her beautiful house.
Taken May 2013 - Revisited for Digging In The Archives Tuesday - I just love this shot, what can I say :-), which is one 6 posted here (all one after the other, so easy to find). I took them at a Graffiti and general fun event in the city centre park in the heart of Paderborn, Nord-Rhein Westfalia (Germany). This is something Germans do so well, organising relaxed, inclusive, casual events like this on a really regular basis and this is one of the many aspect of live we loved about living in Germany.
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Set: Germany
Spring really is "springing" around these parts, with a festival or event of some kind almost every week. As I mentioned in the narrative for a picture I uploaded yesterday (see www.flickr.com/photos/globalnomad01/8707780719/ ), just under 2 months ago this was a quiet and very chilly scene and the graffiti was much darker in colour. I wondered, back in March, if the graffiti had been commissioned and here's the answer in all it's festive and creative glory!
#AB_FAV_FESTIVE_🎄
On the 13th of December, in Sweden, the festivities of Lucia Day begins.
In our home, for Christmas, red candles are a MUST!!!
In Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Norway and Finland, Lucia is venerated on December 13 in a ceremony where a girl is elected to portray Lucia.
Wearing a white gown with a red sash and a crown of candles on her head, she walks at the head of a procession of women, each holding a candle.
The candles symbolise the fire that refused to take St.Lucia's life when she was sentenced to be burned.
The women sing a Lucia song while entering the room, to the melody of the traditional Neapolitan song Santa Lucia; the Italian lyrics describe the view from Santa Lucia in Naples, the various Scandinavian lyrics are fashioned for the occasion, describing the light with which Lucia overcomes the darkness.
Each Scandinavian country has lyrics in their native tongues.
After finishing this song, the procession sings Christmas carols or more songs about Lucia.
A similar version occurs in Scandinavian communities and churches in the United States.
According to the Julian calendar, the night of Lucia was the longest night of the year.
This is likely to be the reason why the tradition has lived on in the Nordic countries in particular, as the nights in November and December are very dark and long before the snow has fallen, and the idea of light overcoming darkness is thus appealing.
There are traces of the legends of Saint Lucia in the Nordic countries even in the Middle Ages, and her day of remembrance is December 13th (just like the Lussi).
Yet another name is relevant here, namely Lucifer( In Dutch that means a matchstick!).
His name has the same etymological background (the name literally means 'light-bringer' 😉.
Brought this candle holder from Sweden.
I wish you all the very best, and thank you for all your kind words, time, comments, and faves. Very much appreciated.
M, (*_*)
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